Adoption of Bt Cotton and Impact Variability: Insights from India

By M. Qaim, Arjunan Subramanian, G. Naik, David Zilberman. 2006

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Risk preferences and pesticide use by cotton farmers in China (2013, background): “scientists tested bollworm pests with Bt cotton and concluded that bollworms found in China's cotton fields had not yet become resistant to Bt cotton (Wu, 2007). Tracking bollworm population over a decade in 6 provinces in China, Wu et al. (2008) have also shown that populations of bollworm larvae a”
The Economics of Genetically Modified Crops (2009, methodology): “However, such reports do not build on representative data (Qaim et al. 2006, 2008).”
The Impact of Bt Cotton on Poor Households in Rural India (2008, background): “Qaim et al. (2006) analysed farm level effects of Bt cotton in India in 2002– 2003, using stratified random sample data collected in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu.”
Time to Change What to Sow: Risk Preferences and Technology Adoption Decisions of Cotton Farmers in China (2013, background): “…my sample had occurred in 1993, and by 2004, every farmer in my sample had tried Bt cotton (as evidenced in figure 1).7 The success of Bt cotton is well documented (Bennett, Ismael, & Morse, 2005; Crost et al., 2007; Gandhi & Namboodiri, 2006; Narayanamoorthy & Kalamkar, 2006; Qaim et al., 2006).”
Impact of Bt cotton on pesticide poisoning in smallholder agriculture: A panel data analysis (2011, background): “Thus, technology adoption rates for 2002 are not representative, but the subsamples of Bt adopters and non-adopters are representative for cotton producers in central and southern India (Qaim et al., 2006; Subramanian and Qaim, 2010).”
Impacts of Bt crops on non-target invertebrates and insecticide use patterns (2009, background): “Likewise, in India it is estimated that the number of insecticide applications has been comparatively reduced by 38–42% and the volume of active ingredient has been reduced by 50–70% [94–96].”
Field versus Farm in Warangal: Bt Cotton, Higher Yields, and Larger Questions (2011, background): “…et al., 2007, Table 4) link Bt cotton to increased pesticide use, the strong pattern in peer-reviewed research is for insecticide use to drop with Bt cotton adoption (Bennett, Ismael, Kambhampati, & Morse, 2004; Bennett, Ismael, & Morse, 2005; Bennett et al., 2006; Qaim, 2003; Qaim et al., 2006).”
The Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity Worldwide (2010, background): “For Brazil, I use results of the recently published 2006 Brazilian agricultural census (IPGE 2008), and for Indonesia, I compiled improved data on agricultural land and machinery use (Fuglie 2004, 2010). For Taiwan, I use statistics from the Council of Agriculture. Finally, since FAO reports data on”
A Meta Analysis on Farm-Level Costs and Benefits of GM Crops (2011, unknown): “[24] observed an increase in workload for crop maintenance and harvest of Bt adopters, mainly as a result of the higher yield.”